Map Day at Library of Congress Geography and Map Division

Arranged by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division and Philip Lee Phillips Society with invitation to Washington Map Society members.

Location: LOC Jefferson Building, LJ119 (Mahogany Row), 10 First St., SE, Washington, DC 20003. In person only (The event will be recorded with a link to both talks when published on loc.gov).

Time:  Thursday, May 8 from 1:45 pm ET - 4:30 pm ET

Title: “Exploring Map Surrounds.” Two presentations with speakers discussing the significance of cartouches and watermarks on maps from Library of Congress collections.

First Speaker (1:45 pm):  Chet Van Duzer, Historian of cartography, PLPS Fellow, and board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester, with presentation entitled “Drawing Identity: Cartographic Self-Portraits in the 20th and 21st Centuries.”

Break (2:45 pm): Break with refreshments and Geography and Map Division display.

Second Speakers (3:15 pm): Dr. Juliet Wiersema, Pre-Hispanic and Spanish Colonial Art History at University of Texas-San Antonio, and Meghan Hill, Preservation Science Specialist at the Library of Congress with presentation entitled, “Sights on Spice. A Historical and Material Exploration of William Hack’s A Description of the Sea Coasts … East Indies”

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More details will be announced soon.